Post by chrisw on Nov 25, 2023 13:23:16 GMT -5
I hit the lake with one hardy teenage son about 6:15am at the Halesford public boat launch. I had no issue with the ramp. The air temperature was mid 30s and the water temp was 59 pretty much everywhere. The wind was strong and gusty from the East, with a thin overcast.
We booked over to some dock lights and saw lots of life in the vicinity. We jigged soft plastics, bucktail jigs, and spoons, but got no interest. After about 30 minutes, it started getting light enough that the fish scattered from the lights, so we moved on.
We looked in the mid-to-back of 3 different creek arms and saw lots of life over the main creek channels: clouds of bait, smaller fish swimming around (white perch?), and larger marks that might have been stripers. No big concentrations though. We fished two of the creeks, including a long drift in the back of one from about 45 feet deep to about 25, jigging the whole time. Drift speeds were over .5 mph in the strong winds.
We never got any interest that we could tell, and saw next to nothing shallower than 25 feet, except at the dock light before dawn. One guy on the bank asked us if we were seeing anything, and I said there were scattered fish; he replied that he had fished yesterday and they were VERY scattered. I never stopped to look in the main river channel, so not sure what that looked like. We headed back for the ramp around 8:30.
This has been somewhat typical of my recent trips, at least since mid-fall. If anyone has tips on how we could have done better, I’d love to hear them.
We booked over to some dock lights and saw lots of life in the vicinity. We jigged soft plastics, bucktail jigs, and spoons, but got no interest. After about 30 minutes, it started getting light enough that the fish scattered from the lights, so we moved on.
We looked in the mid-to-back of 3 different creek arms and saw lots of life over the main creek channels: clouds of bait, smaller fish swimming around (white perch?), and larger marks that might have been stripers. No big concentrations though. We fished two of the creeks, including a long drift in the back of one from about 45 feet deep to about 25, jigging the whole time. Drift speeds were over .5 mph in the strong winds.
We never got any interest that we could tell, and saw next to nothing shallower than 25 feet, except at the dock light before dawn. One guy on the bank asked us if we were seeing anything, and I said there were scattered fish; he replied that he had fished yesterday and they were VERY scattered. I never stopped to look in the main river channel, so not sure what that looked like. We headed back for the ramp around 8:30.
This has been somewhat typical of my recent trips, at least since mid-fall. If anyone has tips on how we could have done better, I’d love to hear them.
